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Sunday, February 23, 2014

Call for Submissions -- Chelsea Station Magazine on the Web

Beginning mid-March, 2014 Chelsea Station, a magazine devoted to
gay writing, will become an online only magazine located at www.chelseastationmagazine.com.
The magazine will continue to publish original and unpublished fiction,
nonfiction, poetry, essays, memoir, humor, narrative travelogue, interviews,
and reviews (books, theater, television, and film) relating to gay literature
and gay men. Submissions should be sent to info@chelseastationeditions.com.
Manuscripts should be emailed as Word attachments. Please include your name,
address, and e-mail contact information on the first page of your document. Please
query about reprints or promotional excerpts. Please also include a brief bio of
100 words at the end of your submission. Please do not send more than one prose
work or more than four poems for consideration. The online magazine will also feature
art and photos and contributors can query by sending samples or links to their
portfolio.Editors are also welcome to
query about Guest Editing. For more information on the online magazine visit www.chelsestationmagazine.com
and http://www.chelseastationeditions.com/ChelseaStation-ALiteraryJournal.html.

About Me

Jameson Currier is the author of six novels: Where the Rainbow Ends, nominated for a Lambda Literary award, The Wolf at the Door, The Third Buddha, What Comes Around, The Forever Marathon, and A Gathering Storm; and four collections of short fiction: Dancing on the Moon; Desire, Lust, Passion, Sex; Still Dancing: New and Selected Stories; and The Haunted Heart and Other Tales, which was awarded a Black Quill Award for Best Dark Genre Fiction Collection. His short fiction has appeared in many literary magazines, anthologies, and Web sites. His reviews, essays, interviews, and articles on AIDS and gay literature and culture have been published in many national and local publications. In 2010 he launched Chelsea Station Editions, an independent press focused on gay literature. In 2011 he launched Chelsea Station, a literary journal of gay writing, now online at www.chelseastationmagazine.com. He currently resides in Manhattan and can be reached by e-mail at jimcurrier@aol.com.

Author Jameson Currier expands his richly detailed storytelling to an international level, weaving together the intertwining stories of the search for a missing journalist in the Bamiyan region of Afghanistan with a young man's search for his older brother in Manhattan in the aftermath of 9/11 into a sweeping, multi-cultural novel of what it means to be a gay citizen of the world.

The Wolf at the Door

Available from Chelsea Station Editions

A witty tour de force of spirits, spooks, and sinners, a supernatural roller coaster set in the Big Easy that is giddy, soulful, and sentimental.

"Currier is one of the few writers who can equally be literary, erotic, dramatic and damn funny, sometimes all in the same sentence." Sean Meriwether, The Silent Hustler

The Haunted Heart and Other Talesghost stories by Jameson Currier

In his newest collection of short stories, The Haunted Heart and Other Tales, author Jameson Currier modernizes the traditional ghost story with gay lovers, loners, activists, and addicts, blending history and contemporary issues of the gay community with the unexpected of the supernatural.

“Jameson Currier’s The Haunted Heart and Other Tales expands upon the usual ghost story tropes by imbuing them with deep metaphorical resonance to the queer experience. Infused with flawed, three-dimensional characters, this first-rate collection strikes all the right chords in just the right places. Equal parts unnerving and heartrending, these chilling tales are testament to Currier’s literary prowess and the profound humanity at the core of his writing. Gay, straight, twisted like a pretzel…his writing is simply not to be missed by any reader with a taste for good fiction.”
Vince Liaguno, Dark Scribe Magazine

Still Dancing: New and Selected Stories by Jameson CurrierStill Dancing: New and Selected Stories by Jameson Currier, published by Lethe Press, brings together 20 of the author’s short stories about the impact of AIDS on the gay community which have been written over the last three decades. Along with ten stories from Currier’s debut collection Dancing on the Moon (1993), praised by The Village Voice as “defiant and elegiac,” are ten newly selected stories written by one of our preeminent masters of the short narrative form. And for this new collection the author has also chosen stories that revolve around gay New Yorkers—those lost, those surviving, those displaced, those undaunted, and those who became expatriates.

"In these stories, Currier fictionalizes queer life and times from three decades of the AIDS era, capturing the years in his prose. It has the literary heft of Camus and the quiet urbanity of Cheever…. Currier chronicles not only a defining era in gay America, but the private lives of the people who triumphed through what looked like defeat. These lives are often so finely drawn, Currier never has to resort to cliché… Gritty, esoteric, funny and passionate, Currier’s courageous prose reminds us that we must never forget."Lewis Whittington, EDGE